Factory LED light issues

[Reese Ballou]

Hello!
I have an issue with the LED DRL light strip flickering on my driver side headlamp assembly. Now, I know that they’re LED and they naturally have a flicker, but this is way more noticeable on the drivers side compared to the passengers side. I took a slo-mo video to show the difference in flickering. https://youtu.be/6849xo0NjV4


My other issue has to do with my drivers side brake light. The top part of the red has a section that just doesn’t work, and it looks like there’s something physically in the spot but I don’t know how to look further into it



You can see on my passenger side that it works all the way to the edge


Here is what it looks like without the light on, you can see it’s a little darker in that spot


Does anyone have any ideas or insight?

 

[Reese Ballou]

Bump

 

[Alwaysthinkin]

Sorry I can't help. However, I can give you another bump. Good luck.

 

[Fizzy]

Is this a brand new truck? Is it still under warranty? That’ll be your best bet. Those are sealed units and not really user serviceable.

 

[Matthew Abrams]

Following. Curious to know the issue here as it seems too coincidental that you are facing separate issues re: lighting on the same side of the vehicle.

 

[2018ExpyPlatinum]

I'd try doing a search on here. I think this was discussed here before and as I remember, it should be covered by warranty, but seems you have to fight a bit. Very expensive part. If I recall, corporate has to ok it.

It's interesting because on mine is the opposite. Left side tail light works fully, right side now has part of it "burnt" out at the top. I don't know when that changed, because it used to be fully lit.

 

[2018ExpyPlatinum]

BAM!

This is what I was thinking of

https://www.expeditionforum.com/threads/led-tail-light-dead-spot.45032/

 

[Fizzy]

BAM!

This is what I was thinking of

https://www.expeditionforum.com/threads/led-tail-light-dead-spot.45032/

Crazy! That’s literally exactly the same!

 

[5280tunage]

man that's silly... Definitely hope yours is under warranty, otherwise here's a $1k plastic housing with $10 (if that) worth of LED's that can last a few years... I know LED this and that is the rage, but I'm starting to wish we could go back to user replaceable incandescent, or at least user replaceable LED, that is if the quality is this low.

Frankly, its kinda like the LED bulbs for your house. They say they save you $200 in electricity over their life, which is how we make it viable to spend 10x vs. an incandescent but I don't know about you guys, but I write service dates on LED bulbs. They usually still die within a year, not the 5yrs the payback talks about.

You just gave me another thing to pay close attention to

 

[Reese Ballou]

WOW that’s insane how identical that issue is! I bought mine in January 2021 and it has around 94k miles, so I’m not sure how my warranty stacks up to that, but knowing the other guy got some sort of resolution at least gives me hope on the tail light. Thanks everyone, I’ll keep you posted.

 

[Gumby]

man that's silly... Definitely hope yours is under warranty, otherwise here's a $1k plastic housing with $10 (if that) worth of LED's that can last a few years... I know LED this and that is the rage, but I'm starting to wish we could go back to user replaceable incandescent, or at least user replaceable LED, that is if the quality is this low.

Frankly, its kinda like the LED bulbs for your house. They say they save you $200 in electricity over their life, which is how we make it viable to spend 10x vs. an incandescent but I don't know about you guys, but I write service dates on LED bulbs. They usually still die within a year, not the 5yrs the payback talks about.

You just gave me another thing to pay close attention to

My biggest issue with LED's in the automotive world is the lack of heat that comes from them. In cold climates, the bulbs do not melt the ice and snow. Therefore, imo causing a potential hazard by covering up the lenses. I'm not knocking the look and the light output during normal usage. I think the clean fresh light look is fantastic.

 

[Fizzy]

My biggest issue with LED's in the automotive world is the lack of heat that comes from them. In cold climates, the bulbs do not melt the ice and snow. Therefore, imo causing a potential hazard by covering up the lenses. I'm not knocking the look and the light output during normal usage. I think the clean fresh light look is fantastic.

Yeah, I've noticed that up here too. When it's really bad out and we're on a road trip, we have to stop every 30 minutes or so to scrape the ice off the headlights.

 

[1970Maverick]

man that's silly... Definitely hope yours is under warranty, otherwise here's a $1k plastic housing with $10 (if that) worth of LED's that can last a few years... I know LED this and that is the rage, but I'm starting to wish we could go back to user replaceable incandescent, or at least user replaceable LED, that is if the quality is this low.

Frankly, its kinda like the LED bulbs for your house. They say they save you $200 in electricity over their life, which is how we make it viable to spend 10x vs. an incandescent but I don't know about you guys, but I write service dates on LED bulbs. They usually still die within a year, not the 5yrs the payback talks about.

You just gave me another thing to pay close attention to

I'm with you on dating household LED bulbs. I put one in a lamp and it lasted 9 days.
I bought my 2017 new and have all incandescent bulbs. I even removed the LED fog lights and hung some Hella fogs under the front bumper.

 

[Fizzy]

I removed all my incandescent bulbs and replaced them with candles.

 

[bignottalle]

Hope that warranty covered the costs in this case. I got the same car a month ago and hope that I will not get the same issue in a month or two. If they cover the costs, I will change the whole part with the harness. I planned to change these LEDs to something better but not so soon. If I see it is broken, I will go for my favorite RGB multicolored LED light bulbs. They are much more fun than the regular ones, and you can make them shine in any color you would like to see. It sounds insane but looks extremely cool on the road. My friend has lights like that, and the car looks sick.

 

[Going_Going_Gone]

If you're past your BTB warranty, and even if you bought a Ford ESP warranty, they required an additional (upfront) charge in order to cover LED lighting. Without that rider, and ESP purchaser would be on their own coverage-wise.